A Conductor’s and Performer’s Guide to Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone - Chester Jenkins

42 The horns and euphonium are the only ones to play the motive in its native form, with other instruments playing it with differing octave displacement. The first four notes of the motive are clearly performed in its native shape, with the fifth pitch played as a staccato 8 th note. A similar legato statement happens at measure 62. Figure 30. Concerto for Alto Saxophone 3 rd movement, measures 60-65. Use of sudden rhythmic augmentation of motive at measure 62 in brass. Measure 74 includes a note in the solo saxophone part to improvise until measure 90. The chord progression centers mostly in Eb minor and Bb minor. The texture is quite open here, as the soloist is playing primarily with the flutes, alto sax 1, trumpet 1 with harmon mute, stopped horns, piano, bass and vibraphone, all of whom are marked at mezzo piano. This gives plenty of opportunity for the soloist to be heard during this section.